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Roy @royscholten.bsky.social · 12h

I’ve been making prints using LEGO® parts for over 12 years. The book The Hilversum Method will explain how it works, show why it is so inspiring, and tell you what you need to get started.

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#printmaking #LEGOletterpress #hilversummethod

A poster- or book cover-like layout. An abstract composition of interlocking geometric black shapes printed using lego tiles. There's a red line along the left side. Underneath the text The Hilversum Method. The technique, philosophy and joy of LEGO letterpress.

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Roy @royscholten.bsky.social · 9d

No more coffee for you.

Roy @royscholten.bsky.social · 12d

Ooooh, the fleurons on the sides are amazingly beatiful. Excellent.

Roy @royscholten.bsky.social · 12d

Last Thursday I cleaned the gear racks of our VanderCook proofing press. Then I refined the letter and word spacing of this poster I'm working on. Picture taken before making those refinements. 🙃
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#letterpress #typography #woodtype

Photo of four lines of large wood type locked up in the bed of a proofing press.

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Roy @royscholten.bsky.social · 20d

Started filling up our new furniture cabinet. Some wood, some metal furniture. Wood preferred as this is the cabinet for using with the wood type collection.
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#letterpress #typography

Een houten meubel met 10 schappen elk in vier ongelijke vakken. Elk vak is gevuld met zogenaamd holwit: stukken hout en metaal in verschillende typografische maten.

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Roy @royscholten.bsky.social · Jul 30

Read more about this print and its design process here: bildung.royscholten.nl/posts/2025/t...

Common Kestrel

A print of the Dutch bird of the year 2025.

bildung.royscholten.nl

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Roy @royscholten.bsky.social · 13d

Two of my prints will be on show at The Natural Eye exhibition by @societyofwildlifeartists in @mallgalleries. And that's in London, 16 to 25 October.

Pretty cool methinks!
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#exhibition #wildlife #printmaking

Stylized image of a Common Kestrel with over it the text: SWLA, Mall Galleries. Society of Wildlife Artists, The Natural Eye 2025.

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Roy @royscholten.bsky.social · 13d

Two of my prints will be on show at The Natural Eye exhibition by @societyofwildlifeartists in @mallgalleries. And that's in London, 16 to 25 October.

Pretty cool methinks!
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#exhibition #wildlife #printmaking

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Roy @royscholten.bsky.social · 20d

Started filling up our new furniture cabinet. Some wood, some metal furniture. Wood preferred as this is the cabinet for using with the wood type collection.
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#letterpress #typography

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🪦CONNQUERING RIFFS🪦 @cravensilverthorn.bsky.social · 21d

Metal Blessings!

Too much bullshit going on in the world. We need more metal!
Here’s a great track from Atheist’s 1989 first album ‘Piece of Time’. They have been a pinnacle of progressive death metal since this album.

Cheers! 🤘
#Metalsky #Musicskt #Atheist #Metal

youtu.be/dvWWnyiuMok?...

On They Slay

YouTube video by Atheist - Topic

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Roy @royscholten.bsky.social · 22d

Visitors of the opening of my *elementair* exhibition all got a handmade print of the Common Kestrels' back pattern.
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#legoletterpress #printmaking #letterpress #hilversummethod

Photo of a hand holding a small black on white print of a dotted pattern. Directly behind it a stylized print of a falcon, on gray paper. The pattern on its back is the same as the one on the small white card.

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Roy @royscholten.bsky.social · Sep 10

A selection of my prints will be on show at Print International in Tŷ Pawb, Wrexham, Wales. November 8 till January 24. Excited!

www.typawb.wales/event/print-...
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#exhibition #printmaking #wales

Poster for the exhibition. Lots of yellow dots on white in a radial composition. Over it in black text: Tŷ Pawb. Print Rhyngwladol, Print International. 08.11.2025 - 24.01.2026. Arddangosfa bob dwy flynedd sy'n cynnwys, a biennial exhibition featuring East London Printmakers, Constructure, Printing in Dutch, Red Plate Press, Regional Print Centre, Spike Print Studio. Stryd Y Farchnad / Market Street / Wrecsam / Wrexham

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · Sep 8

When you were typesetting late at night somewhere in a poorly-lit print shop in 1702 Germany, and woke up to notice that you fucked up ...

A page from a book from 1702 with different kinds of used type. Access: https://vd18.gbv.de/viewer/image/013753819/1/LOG_0000/

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Roy @royscholten.bsky.social · Sep 8

This is excellent proto-grunge typography.

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Roy @royscholten.bsky.social · Aug 31

M'n expositie ‘elementair’ opent aanstaande vrijdag 5 september om 5 uur in de middag. Welkom!.

Te zien: recente vogelprenten, nieuw werk uit de serie Street Spirits, en een aantal vogelprentontwerpstudies.

Locatie: Ontwerpfabriek, van Riebeeckweg 2, Hilversum.
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#printmaking #expositie #hilversum

Foto met een detail van ontwerpstudie voor de Baardman prent. Oranje lijf, zwarte veeg als vleugel met lichtblauwe accenten. Potloodmarkeringen en een onleesbare notitie. De tekst staat linksonder: elementair, expositie van prenten door royscholten in het ontwerpfabriekje, hilversum.

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Roy @royscholten.bsky.social · Aug 17

Kijk, ik ben een thema!
Artikel in Natuurfotografie magazine
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#printmaking #birds #LEGOletterpress

Een opengeslagen tijdschrift op een houten tafel. Drie afbeeldingen van vogelprenten en tekst. Linksboven de titel 'Roy Scholten', met daar weer boven in het klein 'thema'.

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Sarah Bodman @sarahbodman.bsky.social · Aug 19

Gareth Phillips - photobooks, sculptures, installations - talk is now archived on our CFPR YouTube at:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWTM...
Discussing his process of creating photobooks and how bringing the viewer into the book's space allows them to interact with the narratives of his 2D and 3D works.

Image of a large scale book installation of an imaginary planet Caligo. Side view, Caligo Photobook Sculpture, Edition III, Gareth Phillips, 400 x 300 cm, Aesthetica Art Award, York, UK.

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Roy @royscholten.bsky.social · Aug 17

Kijk, ik ben een thema!
Artikel in Natuurfotografie magazine
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#printmaking #birds #LEGOletterpress

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Mike Dawson @mikedawson.bsky.social · Aug 13

Self-publishing is a power, it's a gift. You can put whatever you want into your little 'zines and minicomics, absolutely nobody can tell you no. Tell your story, don't worry if it's "good enough", make it anyway.

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Roy @royscholten.bsky.social · Aug 6

2025 is the year of the Common Kestrel in The Netherlands.

I made a print in LEGO Letterpress and will donate part of the proceeds from its sale to @sovonvogels.bsky.social to support their important work:

www.royscholten.nl/news/2025/co...
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#birds #birdArt #Kestrel #LEGOletterpress #printmaking

Photo of a framed, stylized image of a kestrel, printed on gray paper. The bird sits with its back to us, looking to the left. The head is gray with light cheeks and a slightly darker stripe below the eye. The back is reddish brown with black spots. The wingtips are black, tapering to a point and just crossing over the gray tail, which also ends in black. There's a pencil lying on the left side for indication of scale: 40 x 30 cm.

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Roy @royscholten.bsky.social · Aug 6

2025 is the year of the Common Kestrel in The Netherlands.

I made a print in LEGO Letterpress and will donate part of the proceeds from its sale to @sovonvogels.bsky.social to support their important work:

www.royscholten.nl/news/2025/co...
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#birds #birdArt #Kestrel #LEGOletterpress #printmaking

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Sovon Vogelonderzoek Nederland @sovonvogels.bsky.social · Jul 30

@royscholten.bsky.social maakt op bijzondere wijze vogelprenten: met LEGO stenen als drukmateriaal. Bij de aankoop van deze prent van een Torenvalk man komt 10% van de opbrengst ten goede aan het vogelonderzoek van Sovon. Lees hier verder: www.royscholten.nl/nl/nieuws/20...

Vogelprent Torenvalk man gedrukt op wit papier

Vogelprent Torenvalk man gedrukt op grijs papier

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Roy @royscholten.bsky.social · Jul 30

Read more about this print and its design process here: bildung.royscholten.nl/posts/2025/t...

Common Kestrel

A print of the Dutch bird of the year 2025.

bildung.royscholten.nl

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Roy @royscholten.bsky.social · Jul 30

Buy print, support Kestrel / Koop prent, steun torenvalk!

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#printmaking #birdArt #LEGOletterpress #letterpress #birds

Sovon Vogelonderzoek Nederland @sovonvogels.bsky.social · Jul 30

@royscholten.bsky.social maakt op bijzondere wijze vogelprenten: met LEGO stenen als drukmateriaal. Bij de aankoop van deze prent van een Torenvalk man komt 10% van de opbrengst ten goede aan het vogelonderzoek van Sovon. Lees hier verder: www.royscholten.nl/nl/nieuws/20...

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Medievalist.net @medievalists.bsky.social · Jul 26

The Medievalist Who Taught Us How to Spot a Fascist, by @ricutz.bsky.social

www.medievalists.net/2025/07/the-...

#UmbertoEco #history #medievalism

The Medievalist Who Taught Us How to Spot a Fascist - Medievalists.net

Discover how medievalist Umberto Eco used his fiction, scholarship, and political insight to expose the signs of modern fascism—and why his warnings remain urgent today.

www.medievalists.net

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